These 430,000-year-old wooden tools from Greece are a rare find and provide a glimpse at the technical know-how of our early ...

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Nancy Shute discusses how scientists are beginning to study animals’ emotions and personalities — from joy to individual ...

Greenland sharks are spilling new secrets about antiaging.

Scientists have described a novel, yet benign bone-covered growth's characteristics for doctors, so patients don't receive ...

Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

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At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...